OpenSMART

OpenSMART is a monitoring (and reporting) environment for servers and applications in a network.

OpenSMART's main features are a nice Web front end, XML configuration, monitored servers requiring only a Perl installation and good documentation.

It is easy to write more checks. Supported platforms are Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, AIX, *BSD, and Windows (only as a client).

Features:

• Database backend
• Automatic software updates for OpenSMART agents
• Nice Webfrontend
• for the OpenSMART server: very few dependencies apart from a perl installation
• for the OpenSMART clients (these are your production servers): just a perl installation is needed
• XML configuration for the client (what to check)
• The possibility to configure "fix commands" for some errors
• Simple integration of your own checks (Simple-Adapter)
• Supported Platforms: Linux, HP/UX, Solaris, *BSD, AIX, Windows (only as client) (look at Compatibility List)
• good documentation
• GPL
• Demo-Installation at sourceforge available
• Conditional checks: check things only if some conditions like time or directories are given
• Cluster-aware checks: conditional checks run in a High-Availability-Cluster only where the filesystem (and the application) is mounted
• Checks can print operator instructions
• RSS Feader for state changes of checks
• Very flexible notification rules can be defined
• Flexible Reporting frontend which much data to view (OpenSMART V 0.4)
• frontends in English and German available!
• Many shipped checks whith monitoring guides

What is new in this release:

• Filter states are now displayed in an image map.
• RSS feeds were created for filters.
• Operating system data such as CPU load, IO waits, paging statistics, memory statistics, network statistics, and LPAR usage (AIX) can be collected and reported with osreporter.
• It is also possible to check and report curdepth on MQS queues, usage of LVM volume groups, backup usage of netbackup environments, response time for Web applications, and Oracle buffercache hit ratio.
• Many report templates are included.
• Many more checks were added and many bugs were fixed.